Satellite A300D-1GN - Slow Vista booting

Hi...
I bought laptop 2 days ago Satellite A300D -1gn.
I have pre-installed Vista Home and I have a problem with booting at startup to be precious. It is too long (about 2-3 min).
My friend has weaker Toshiba than mine and he also has a Vista home but his pc is much faster.
What is problem with my laptop? Please help me.....

Hi guys
Horwath has posted already a link to the thread which should help you.
The point is that the Toshiba notebooks support many different notebook features and these features must be controlled by different software.
These processes are running in the Vista background and affect the booting procedure.
If you want you can disable several (not needed) processes in the msconfig.
Furthermore a installed Antivirus applications like Norton Ativirus can slow down the boot procedure dramatically. I had Norton installed on my system and replaced it!
Now Im using the free tool called Antivir. In my opinion its much better and doesnt waste the hardware recourses!!!

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+Message was edited by: Melchius+

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